Koryun Nahapetyan was an Armenia

Armenia

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n-Russia

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n painter-nonconformist, sociologist, philosopher and public activist, a participant of the Bulldozer Exhibition

Bulldozer Exhibition

Bulldozer Exhibition was an unofficial art exhibition on a vacant lot in the Belyayevo urban forest by Moscow avant-garde artists on September 15, 1974...

. He was a member of UNESCO

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 International Federation of Painters.

Nahapetyan was born in Hatsik village, near Leninakan, Soviet Armenia. In 1950 he moved to Moscow

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 and worked there in the ZiL

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 factory.

Nahapetyan finished the art school in Leninakan and Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry

Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry

Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry informally named Stroganovka is one of the oldest Russian schools for the industrial, monumental and decorative art and design. The University is named after its founder, baron Sergei Grigoriyevich Stroganov.-History:The school was founded in...

, entered the post-graduate courses at VNIITE. In 1978 he founded the "20 Moscow painters" movement.

In 1988 he became one of the founders of Karabakh Committee

Karabakh Committee

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of Moscow. In 1999 Nahapetyan was killed in his studio.

External links

• http://www.m-mos.ru/2008/01/34.htm
• http://www.museum.ru/N27429
• «Internanional Herald Tribune», April 12-13 1986. «Moscow s Art Lovers Flock to View Basement Show of „Unofficial“ Works».
• «Moscow Tribune». July 11-13, 2003. #17/1481. «A bulldozer brought freedom»